Southern Tagalog
| Southern Tagalog Timog Katagalugan | |||||||||
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| Former region of the Philippines | |||||||||
| 1965–2002 | |||||||||
Location within the Philippines | |||||||||
| Capital | Quezon City (Regional center) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 2000 | 11,793,655 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1 January 1965 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 17 May 2002 | ||||||||
| Political subdivisions | 11 provinces at the time of partitioning | ||||||||
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| Today part of | |||||||||
Southern Tagalog (Filipino: Timog Katagalugan), designated as Region IV, was an administrative region in the Philippines that comprised the current regions of Calabarzon and Mimaropa, the province of Aurora in Central Luzon, and most of the National Capital Region. It was the largest region in the Philippines in terms of both land area and population. After its partition on May 17, 2002, Southern Tagalog continues to exist as a cultural-geographical region.
The region was bordered by Manila Bay and the South China Sea to the west, Lamon Bay and the Bicol Region to the east, the Tayabas Bay, Sibuyan Sea, and Balabac Strait, where it shared a maritime border with Sabah, Malaysia, to the south, and Central Luzon to the north.